This idea has also been presented on community-wiki: ting-radio
We are used to radio. We switch it on and we are used to listen to prepared radio-shows, pre selected music, more or less intelligent words, commercials, jingles, ... Let's forget about all that. Ting-radio ain't radio in that sense. Rather imagine the accoustic events in a certain location. If you take a location in real-life you hear the sounds and noises that are produced by someone or something close by. Other sonds and noises elsewhere exist, but you do not hear them as they are too far away. A kinda "clever selection" based on the laws of physics. Let's say for example the russian parliament: You are likely to hear 1. political talk, 2. in russian language. There might as well be silence at nighttime or the sound of a vacuum-cleaner when people prepare the hall for the next meeting. It's local. You do not hear somebody talking some hundred meters away.
Ting-radio is a "location" too. It has a url, the stream-server's url. Whoever logs into this url can hear, no matter where in the world this person is located. What do you hear? You hear what is fed into the stream. again this is independent of physical location. Ting-radio is an experiment.
To unfold the potential of it we should have wiki pages - maybe we can use ting-wiki - and the permanent possibility to use a collab-editor.
Infrastructure - What do we need
- a 24/7 stream-server
- a 24/7 teamspeak-server
- a 24/7 collab-editor standalone server (sobby - for gobby, likely)
What do you need
Everything here is quite optional. U need a way to get in touch. U can use serveral ways at once or just one of them. You can a) Listen to the Radio, b) use TeamSpeak, c) edit the Ting with the collab-editor, d) join us on irc or e) use this wiki to get in touch.
The actual ip's of the several servers (ts, radio, irc and last but not least for the collab-editor) will be announced within the Ting. The differ from time to time.
According to using Radio _and_ ts at once' u have to know:
There is an enormous "latency" on the Radio stream (up to 1 minute). Therefore the Radio will usually be streamd to the teamspeak also. So u may listen to both, radio